Just heard on the news that a small plane with approximately 5 people on board went missing from Radar at 4:30am this morning and that reckage has possibly been discovered. There is a lot of fog in the area now which is hampering possible rescue efforts. They must have been flying IFR as they were in contact with Terre Haute when the plane disappeared from Radar.

It is always said to hear another plane go down. As a private pilot myself, I am always unnerved when I hear about stories like this.

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So I have heard then three proposed times for the incident. I am presuming that contact was lost at 10:29, but it did not get reported until 11:40pm like the article says and that the reckage was not found until 4:30am. That at least is my interpretation for the explanation of the times.

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Yes, tragic. All, including apparently the pilot, were students at the Indiana University School of Music.

According to the Chicago Tribune, "Police had said a female was piloting the plane that left West Lafayette, about 90 miles northwest of Bloomington, Thursday night with four male passengers aboard, and at least one person was from Indiana."

Ceiling was reported at 100 feet with one mile visibility. The aircraft was under the control, as it were, of the tower at Terre Haute airport, about 50 miles to the northwest, since the Bloomington airport tower had closed for the night.

They showed it on the news tonight. The plane crashed in a heavily wooded area on the airport property. The lights for the runway were turned on for the runway. The plane looks pretty destroyed with the wings and tail sheered off. It is very unfortunate. It is sad to see five grad students die after attending a concert reherasal in Lafayette.

If you have never designed an airplane part before, let the real designers do the work!

The way the wreckage was relatively condensed, and the reports people gave of the sound of an engine then a thud makes me wonder if they didn't get too slow and stall with insufficient altitude to recover. Just my shot in the dark.

Tragic to hear about...RIP to those on board. I've flown out of LAFBMG a few times myself so this is even more spooky...not sure why.